Blow By Blow

Just had a blow your yesterday at the Gold Coast location and now a formal ½ up ½ down style for a wedding. This place is phenomenal and the stylist SISSON is the one to ask for. Totally a flawless stylist, class act with attitude. She will make you feel confident, fabulous and beautiful. Here’s to a salon that is truly a step above any other blow dry bar in chicago!!!

Never going here again! The Oak Street location is horrible. Got a blowout this past Saturday. it was my 2^nd and LAST time. I should have known better, since the 1^st blowout was so bad. I tried to give a different girl a chance. but no can do. I’ve been getting blowouts for 20 years and can tell instantly if the person is going to be good or not. What I don’t understand is how a salon such as this, that’s going to specialize in blowouts, can’t get it right. I would think they’d have the best and fastest stylists working there, so they can turn the chairs faster all while producing a great looking blowout. My hair is past shoulder length, and a really good salon and stylist has been able to give me a beautiful and bouncy blowout in as short as 30 minutes. I left Blow by Blow on Oak Street on Saturday after 45 minutes, and with frizzy hair. She tried to curl the ends with a tight curling iron, which made it worse. Then, she sprayed hair spray by holding the can about an inch from my head! CLUELESS!!! Oak Street deserves WAY BETTER. Then on my way out to pay, I asked for the manager to at least express my concerns and her attitude said it all. She could of cared less about what I was telling her. looked at me like I was nuts and gave me attitude. Never again. BLOW BY BLOW blew it! I will gladly pay a bit more, but go to a salon that knows what they’re doing and knows how to treat its affluent customers!

Highwood IL location is seriously amazing… I have to have shoulder surgery and started to go because I have a full mane of hair that takes 45 min to wash and dry. I’m hooked, forget about the shoulders, I go 2x per week because they make my hair look runway perfect.
Sadat, Rita and Olga are amazing stylist.

Beautiful service the employees at Blow by Blow are an awesome team! I came in from out of town and was highly recommended to them. Let’s just say they did a phenomenal job on my daughter and myself.

I love love love this place! Olga always does an amazing job with my hair! After my haircuts with Olga I look and feel like a million bucks! I also love getting my makeup and hair color done with Katie! She makes me look flawless and beautiful! I receive many compliments after every appointment. Olga and Katie are both talented and I’m so happy I found them!!!
The salon is gorgeous! The staff is friendly and professional, plus champagne, coffee, and tea… what’s not to love!!!

The staff was very friendly and sweet… but they just don’t do quality work. I booked 4 appointments for myself a 3 friends that were coming from out of town for a birthday dinner. All of us walked out with crunchy curls. Unfortunately, I wouldn’t recommend Blow by Blow if you’re looking for a legitimate blowout.

I went to Blow by Blow for my 50^th birthday. I was being thrown a big party and my 4 nieces, young adults, and my sister were in town. My sister and I each got makeup and all of us had our hairstyled.
All of the stylists and the makeup artists were quick but personable. All of the hairstyles not only came out exactly as we asked, but they looked fantastic and lasted for a long time. In fact, although I have fine hair, my hair held a lot of the styling even the next day.
The staff made us all feel like we were beautiful. They asked to take each of our pictures and posted them to Instagram. It made us feel like they were proud of how we looked. I had a great party and my family and I looked great in the pictures.
I will definitely go back there for any other occasion where I want to feel pampered and confident and I will recommend it.

Management got in touch with me after I posted my original review and could not have been more gracious. I was able to try them again with a personal recommendation of stylist, and I had a wonderful experience from start to finish. Rosie was wonderful and friendly, and was able to help me with a gray coverage that was much needed! I have to call and find out what exactly that gloss treatment was because it worked wonders.
Thank you for being so thoughtful in working so hard to ensure your clients walk away with a positive experience.

I was in town for a weekend with my husband and just wanted a good Blowdry for the night. Rosie was very attentive to doing exactly what I asked. Full hair with some victorias secret waves-​no curls or ringlets! I was in and out in 35 minutes and I loved my hair! I will definitely be asking for her again if I am ever in town. I have had many bad blowdrys in my day and consider myself super picky. Rosie delivered.

The salon is clean and bright. The staff was friendly and I was taken right on time. I got the best haircut and blow dry I have ever had (Olga). I highly recommend this salon.

Don’t go here. The new management is terrible. The old place was WAY better and the stylists were skilled. Today my appointment was 30 mins late, I requested volume with large curls, I left with limp 2 day old locks. It used to be $ 45 they charged me $ 60 but didn’t tell me about the up charge for length and texture (my hair is shoulder bone length and its regular soft curls not kinky). Why pay extra? If I had straight hair I wouldn’t need a blow out! I can’t wait for DRY BAR to open in River North. Those professionals know how to get the job done for $ 45!!!

Have been here twice and found the service, especially from Olga to be outstanding…
Hair looks great and I would highly recommend.

Never again! I’ll keep this short and sweet because I could go on for hours about how horrible my hair looked when I left this place!
I was in town for a wedding and booked an appointment to get a blow out for the big event. My hair is long and straight so it shouldn’t be that hard to blow it out and make it look full with some body. Nope, not at this place! Even though I explained to the girl what I was looking for (a very standard blowout!), I walked out with a head full of poodle curls that were crunchy and stiff! Who uses a small barrel curling iron on the entire head of hair for a blowout?! Awful, awful, awful. But because I’m too polite to complain and only had one hour to get back to hotel, take a full shower and redo my own hair, I didn’t say a word. What a complete waste of $ 40 ($ 50 with the tip!). No joke… people were snickering as I walked down Oak St back to the hotel. I looked like a complete idiot with that «hair don’t»!
Beware. This is not a professional blow dry bar. What I received was nothing close to a blow out!

I called for a blow out and they immediately got me in. Denise made my hair look fabulous! And she was a delight to talk to. I will definitely come back here the next time I am in Chicago.

Olga is the best! My hair always looks fabulous and I get tons of compliments. The salon is super chic in an awesome location. I highly recommend!

I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS PLACE. I live in Boston and came to Chicago for the first time for a friend’s wedding. The website said that it was $ 40 for a wash and blow dry.
I have very curly, thick hair. The person who did my hair left it frizzy and big when I specifically wanted it to be sleek. I told him that I was not happy with it, and he flat ironed it a bit more, but to be honest, I could have done a better job myself. When you go to a salon, you expect a professional, not some amateur who’s never held a flat iron before.
I went to check out, and the woman at the front desk told me that it would be $ 55. I explained that the website said it was $ 40. She said that since my hair was long and it took more than 45 minutes, it cost more and said that the hair stylist should have told me. The stylist came up and said then said ‘sorry, it’s my first day.’ Is this my fault? Is it my responsibility to know their nuanced payment policy? It’s unfair business and had I known that there would be an additional charge, I would have done it myself from the beginning. As it was, I had to run back to my hotel and completely fix it before rushing to make it to the wedding.
And on top of this, I paid a tip. Because as awful as this experience was, I still wanted to be respectful which was more than I received from them.
They offered to fix it later (how will that help me for the wedding in 1 hour?) and in all honesty, I would never return here, even if it was free and I lived in the area.
Also, to top it all, the stylists breath was horrible. And they were disrespectful to my boyfriend while he waited for my terrible hair styling to be done. This added to the already terrible experience.

Had a great blowout. They were a little late but the results definitely paid off. Expensive though. $ 65 for a blow dry and bangs cut.

This is my first time at Blow by Blow and I came specifically to get a haircut with Olga. I absolutely love the results! Not only is she just a hair styling guru, but she makes sure your hair is perfect down to every last detail. The staff was courteous and the interior of the salon was clean and sleek. Thanks for making me feel like a million bucks. Keep up the good work!

DO NOT GO HERE! Especially if you have somewhere important to be.
I frequent blow dry bars where I live in CA and when I visited Chicago for a gala type event I knew for sure I’d want my hair blown dry and styled for the event. Six weeks before the event I called Olga and she talked up the place as if it was going be amazing. I was booking for four other ladies and specified a date and time with her. She told me she had that time available and I booked.
The day before the event, I called all of my appointments and blow by blow confirmed my five appointments and even told me they could cork wine and provide the glasses for it. I am so excited at this point!
Day of, one of our ladies shows up to blow by blow 30 mins before our appointment and they didn’t have us in their books. WHAT!!! Olga tells me I needed a credit card to hold the appointment…
SHE NEVER ASKED ME FOR A CREDIT CARD NUMBER. The dimwit who «confirmed» my appointments must have had her head in the clouds. My group of five ended up at Walgreens buying all the hair products, curling irons and booze we could. Took it back to our suite and did our hair ourselves. Worse of all, Olga acted like it was my fault and couldn’t help me.
Tldr: make sure you guarantee you appt with a cc if you NEED to use this place. I’m sure there are better places in Chicago save yourself the headache.

The space is lovely and my hair style turned out as expected.
However, I received a call the day before my appointment asking if they could move me from 1.00 to 12.30. I asked specifically how long my blowout would take and was told it would be 45 minutes and I would be out the door by 1.15. Fine by me.
When I arrived for my (now) 12.30 appointment I had to wait for 20 minutes! I was done at 2.05 — a far cry from the 1.15 I was told to expect. I wouldn’t be overly upset by the 50min delay had I not been on my way to a wedding, to which I was 20min late due to the long delay.
To be fair I did like the final outcome, but it wasn’t worth the anxiety or embarrassment it caused.